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Article: Garden fans getting last chance at souvenirs; GARDEN HARVEST Some of the items available in the memorabilia auction Friday night at the shuttered Boston Garden (with estimated minimum sale price): Zamboni, used to scrape the ice between periods of hockey game $3,000. Single balcony seat signed by Larry Bird $300. Bruins locker room doors $400. Red Auerbach's cigar, "3 4 smoked by Red," the catalog promises $100. Auerbach's seat, complete with direct phone line to Celtics bench and an outside line to order Chinese food $1,000. Three bags of parquet floor sawdust and five rings that held the bolts $50. Basketball rim bent by Shaquille O'Neal $500. Jo Jo White's 1974 NBA championship ring $1,000. Sam Jones stained glass window from Basketball Hall of Fame $2,000. Celtics time out horn $400. Boston Bruins bench, including dasherboards and plexiglass $2,000. Skate sharpener, "once sharpened the likes of Orr, Esposito, Cheevers" $500. Cam Neely mouthpiece, "perfectly molded to the great scorer's teeth" $100. Johnny Most table, speaker and chair, cigarette burns and all $400. Six Grateful Dead tickets, from the 1995 concert that never took place because of Jerry Garcia's death $200. Ringling Brothers trapeze, in 1929, "the Garden became the first indoor facility ever to host such a spectacle" $200. Skybox, including 12 vinyl seats, oak bar unit, refrigerator and cabinet $200. John F. Kennedy election eve rally tickets $300. Set of three Bruins lockers $1,000. 1938-'39 Stanley Cup champions banner $3,000.
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- September 25, 1996
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So you got outbid for President Kennedy's golf clubs, and a
$640,500 Honus Wagner baseball card is a little out of your price
range?
Don't give up. Boston Garden will clean out its attic Friday
night by auctioning everything from the original scoreboard to the
signs on the bathroom doors.
"All the Babe Ruth uniforms in the world combined could not match
how I felt when I first stepped onto the Boston Garden floor knowing
that Leland's was going to be a part of this auction," auction house
chairman Joshua Leland Evans wrote in the catalog's "Dear Fan"
letter. " . . . We came to feel a little like Howard Carter
searching through King Tut's tomb."
Maybe it was the echoes of long-dead ...
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